When Joseph Heaton Ashmore was born on 20 November 1897, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, his father, Thomas Alva Ashmore, was 34 and his mother, Mary Ann Lemon, was 21. He married Margaret Caroline Paulsen on 15 October 1927, in Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in United States in 1949 and Woodstock, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1950. He died on 20 September 1962, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English (North and West Midlands): habitational name from any of several minor places, generally named from Old English æsc ‘ash’ + mōr ‘moor, high tract of barren ground, marsh’. In the case of Ashmore in Dorset, however, the early forms show that the second element is Old English mere ‘lake’. This surname is also common in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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